Think Like A Designer! Combine Leather and Crystal For A Cohesive Necklace – Jewelry Tutorial

Playing with a variety of jewelry findings and beads is one of the joys of creating jewelry.

But if you want everything to work well together, you have to keep a few design principles in mind as you work.

In today’s video I show how to combine three seemingly incongruous materials: braided leather, gold plated findings and sparkling crystals.

As I work through the design you’ll learn what elements of each material you need to consider in order for all your pieces to create a cohesive whole, so they look like they’ve always belonged together.